The archaeology of the Kurdistan region of Iraq and adjacent regions by Kōnstantinos Kopanias(
Book
)1
edition published
in
2016
in
English
and held by
47 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Kurdistan is home to some of the most important archaeological sites in the world, ranging from the Stone Age to the most
recent past. While in earlier decades this exceptional potential did not receive the degree of attention which it merited,
the past ten years has seen a burgeoning of cuttingedge archaeological field projects across the region. This volume, the
outcome of a conference held at the University of Athens in November 2013, presents the results of this research. For the
first time the archaeological inventory of the region is being systematically documented, laying the foundations for intensive
study of the region's settlement history. At the same time the area has seen a flourishing of excavations investigating every
phase of human occupation. Together these endeavours are generating basic new data which is leading to a new understanding
of the arrival of mankind, the development of agriculture, the emergence of cities, the evolution of complex societies and
the forging of the great empires in this crucible of mankind